Welcome to Friday Face OFF (FFO) This is the place where you can show any type of face, in any medium. The face can be human, animal, alien, monster, a face you see in nature, or the face of a flower. If it is a face you can share it.
For me, I was playing with AI. I am fascinated by this small area of what AI can create.
These are hauntingly beautiful.
But after making several sets of faces I noticed that as real as they seem there is a robot look to them. As gorgeous as this girl is. I see an unreal look to her. AI has made her so perfect that even her skin looks synthetic. However, that is AI's job.
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I wanted to show this lovely lady. She was on google under ugly women. OMG! Look at her, see the beauty in her face. This photo shows some pain, heartache and sadness. How can anyone call her ugly?!  |
There are so many amazing faces that we see everyday. Do we actually look at people? Do we see them for being real? Or has social media, cell phones, and yes AI moved us further away from our humanity?
That's it for me before I get on some kind of rampage. LOL
This week feature is Leeanna from
I'm also linking to Gillena
Nicole
31 comments:
For some reason, the group of AI girls had lips that were out of proportion. But that's just me. AI has a place, but I'm still not convinced it has a place in art. You certainly created a lot of faces for FFO!
I agree, with AI you never know what is real and what´s not and why, oh why is that woman listed under "ugly"???
I think I am old.
My parents were kids in WW II, my Mom had to flee from the Russians (hmmm, sounds kinda familiar right now), my Grandma had to decide, send the older kids onto the Gustloff and wait with the younger ones in the terrible cold or stick together (she luckily decided for the latter).
She sometimes looked like the "ugly" woman, too.
Some bad memories never go away.
My sweet neighbor W... he can tell the most horrible stories from the war, yet... he has overcome the trauma mostly. He´s 84, not that wrinkly yet, but you can read a lot from the lines on his face.
Ugly? Only a dumb person can say so.
Let´s hope our wrinkles show a happy life - with this... a happy Friday to you!
And yes. I do look at people. I am small. Couple of years ago in a grocery an elderly woman asked me to hand her down some water-bottles. I was on my toes! There were tall people around us ;-)
Another time a woman took me for her Granddaughter by accident. She didn´t mind I wasn´t, she talked to me anyways all through check-out :-)
I admired her for her braveness. We can learn a lot from the "older" generation!
Bravo! Beautiful post
I agree with every word.
I completely agree with you. Those old women faces are so full of stories - I would love to sit with them and listen to their stories. To call a face "ugly" is harsh and pretty much shows what seems to be important in our society - superficial stuff. It's really sad. Thank you for showing these beautiful women, Nicole.
a beautiful and heartfelt sharing dear Nichole !
i agree that beauty created by AI can be perfect but lifeless .life has it's own touch of incompleteness which keep things alive always striving for grow and better that makes them most appealing i believe the longing for progress :)
i felt sad that lady was put under tag of ugly i must say the one who did so was unaware of true meaning of beauty sadly .
thank you for making my day! health peace and joy to you my dear friend!
Older faces have much more character than these polished young ones. These days most oldies that I see are smart and look good. Valerie
Very thoughtful and interesting! Aloha
I find the older faces or any faces with some character and something in the eyes much more interesting. Absolutely agree!! :)
"Has social media, cell phones, and yes AI moved us further away from our humanity?" That is an excellent question. When people spend more time interacting with a device rather than one another, I'd say so. I recently heard AI art described as "soulless." People are really enamored with AI right now, though, so I doubt anyone is thinking about that.
I have an idea for a sci fi story, in which the protagonist interacts with a variety of friends via their computer, but in the end, it turns out that they are the last human on earth and all their friends are actually just AI.
Youthful perfection has always been a human goal. I wonder if anyone has asked AI to create faces of old people. I somehow doubt they'd show as much appeal and personality as the photographs you shared.
Hi Nicole, your older womans are much better then the AI ones.
What I have seen from AI so far I don´t like it. Faces looks like plastic dolls. A human face is not "perfect" And not that shiny. And we have visible emotions. AI don´t! Landscapes also look bad in AI. The images are "dead"!
Gorgeous photograph art, Nicole. Thanks for showing.
Happy FFO
These faces are fabulous. All the wrinkles reflect their life long experiences.
AI can fool me so easily, it’s scary.
Happy Friday Nicole. Thanks for linking to Art For Fun Friday
Much💛love
You're so right about what constitutes real beauty!
I love seeing interesting faces. For next week, I am hoping to have corpsed a mask for halloween, based on your instructions.
...I like the real deal best!
Everyone seems to love a young pretty face, but those women (not being mean) haven't witnessed as much life as older faces. You are right, age is not a bad thing (except for health but even young people have health issues), and life definitely becomes richer with age. Lovely faces this week Nicole. And you described what it is about the AI faces exactly. Have a great weekend. hugs-Erika
Your AI piece is really striking! I've not played with that yet.
Good observation on AI limitations. -Christine cmlk79.blogspot.com
Ugly women? not at all - interesting and telling so many stories. And when I see the actual picture of 77 year old Cher? What does it tell me-nothing..except fear of getting older.
Good post.
All the best
Violetta
yes... seeking truth as always
faces are interesting when real, capturing their eyes and expressions, AI and "the idea of perfection" isn't interesting, it's deadening
LeeAnna
The wrinkly faces do have more character. {although I don't say that to myself when I look in the mirror}
Boa tarde de sexta-feira e bom final de semana minha querida amiga Nicole.
I agree ~ older faces have so much more character and beauty to them ~
Lovely portrait by Leanna from Not Afraid of Color ~
Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Stunning faces
Your posts about faces always leave me with new ideas and appreciation for human variety and potential.
best, mae at maefood.blogspot.com
Dear Nicole, you are right, the AI creations are almost too pretty to be true - and they actually ARE not true... The real wrinkled faces definitely have more charisma and a true, personal story. By the way, a few years ago (2015) I had a linkup called "Save the Laugh Line", where, among other things, this real form of beauty was celebrated. Here's the link to all my laugh line posts: https://rostrose.blogspot.com/p/rettet-die-lachfalte.html
If you allow me, I would link one of the old posts here because it shows many true faces: old and young, human and animal. Here is the link: https://rostrose.blogspot.com/2015/01/spielregeln-zu-rettet-die-lachfalte.html
All the best and happy weekend
Traude
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https://rostrose.blogspot.com/2023/10/nochmal-wien-kurpark-oberlaa-ein-paar.html
I think the old women faces are so full of character.
All the best Jan
The AI faces would look good in horror movies. I love the old women's faces. They do look like they have stories to tell.
I get what you're saying about AI generated faces - too perfect and almost a little creepy if you ask me. :) I also understand what you mean about faces telling stories.
I hope all is well on your end. We were on vacation, locally, for the past two weeks and am now once again back to my normal routine. That was a much needed break and we had such a good time!
Take care, Nicole!
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